I was wondering if changing your IP can cause a drop in SERPs. My site was crawled by googlebot according to webmasters tool last week and all was fine, on p1 for several keywords. Then I got a dedicated IP to obtain an ssl (no change in DNS). Google re-visited my site 2 days ago and now I am nowhere. Funny thing is that google indexed 40 more of my pages. PR has not dropped. The change in IP is the only thing that has changed, except for a couple of directory submissions. Has this happened before to anyone's knowledge?
Hi, maybe it has nothing to do with your ip-change, Google re-visited my site on the 26th and my site is also now no where. And I didn't change a thing. Traffic has dropped dramatically by about 80%. I have no idea why. And certain keywords I would be on page 2 or 3 now I'm not even in the top 1000. Very strange and hope it will be back to normal very soon.
Its unlikely the the ip change has anything to do with your sudden drop. Check your robots.txt is setup correctly
An IP address change wouldn't have any effect, but if the hosts are located in different countries, it could affect your rankings (which doesn't sound like the case here). Google isn't fond of most directory listings these days but I doubt that is the cause. If your site is fairly new, then a drop is expected.
Google keep on dancing these days. Changing IP has nothing to do with ranking. It's about your SEO strategy. My site ranking at a targeted search term always change, it doesn't stuck on a particular number. But I'm glad it ranks high.
changing ip will effect your seo. google will ignore the backlinks with same ip class. when you can change your ip, you may loose some your backlinks because of the same ip class rule
wow. Not very encouraging! I checked my webmaster dashboard and there are a few pages that are showing up as 404 errors that are clearly not. My host claims all is fine. Dashboard can't find y verification page either...
I do not think that changing your ip address will affect your rankings, google has been doing some strange things lately hopefully things will be back to normal some time soon.
i agree with kingofsanda, still may be in initial stage you may find some changes, but after that every thing gonna fine as it was earlier.
No changing your IP can not cause a drop in SERP , SERP update is going on and all most everybody facing it . My blogs having pr5 also facing such problems from last three days but i am using same ip address .
Did you remove the content from the old IP? It's possible that the DNS is still propagating. If you removed the content from the old IP, it could be crawled by GBot and generate the 404 errors.